We can go back to last year and see what happened when Henry Kissinger died.

Granted, I think Henry Kissinger is on a different playing field entirely, but publications and regular people alike were honest about being glad he was dead.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

https://lemmy.world/post/8948958

If they offered you 20,000 more than what you expected, might be you are underselling your actual worth and could have negotiated for more.

Speaking with some family I still have over there, to hear them tell it at least, it’s lingering generational trauma originating from the Great Leap Forward.

Doing the “right thing” at that point in China’s history got you killed. Millions died in the name of collectivization. To survive, people did what they had to: they lied, smuggled, stole, and scammed.

The honest died, the dishonest lived, and so dishonesty became enshrined as a national virtue.

Not too different from capitalism in the west I suppose, since no one good and honest becomes rich. But at least the poor aren’t dying in the millions yet, so people still accept the lie that hard work and integrity will result in success.

What if you start going gray in your 20s?

I found myself using Amazon less and less for shipping, so when Prime Video started injecting ads, I canceled and haven’t looked back.

My solution is that I buy my products in stores, now. I hate it, but that’s what it’s come to. The Amazon deals are not what they once were, so there’s barely a difference in cost. Plus, with so much garbage just flooding Amazon’s search results, it admittedly helps to be able to see a product before choosing to buy it.

Last thing we need is more superpowers meddling in the Middle East.

The extreme Palestinian side is that all Israelis are essentially foreign invaders and should be forcibly removed or killed.

That’s essentially the reality of the situation, though. The land was populated by Palestinians before Europe and the rest of the Middle East NIMBY’d their remaining Jewish populations to Israel.

FWIW several of the hostages taken by Hamas were Americans.

Well I’m glad it wasn’t the KMT who won, but the margin was a lot slimmer this time around. The DPP has a lot of ground to cover to maintain momentum, and this time they also have a lot more opposition along with mounting tensions with the mainland that are causing further problems.

台灣 No. 1!

Try Hexbear, I think you’d be a good fit.

If you know anything about grocery stores, you’d know that relatively few of them actually hire dedicated cart pushers. The people who are asked to go out and get carts are typically people whose primary job is something else that they have to put on hold. And with stores struggling to hold sufficient staffing even before the pandemic made things worse, these are people who are also already very overworked and would probably love to not have to spend longer than needed out in the elements when they’re behind on everything else.

Right, it’s just that there is no component inherent to anarchy which prevents a leader from rising anyways. Someone who is charismatic and skilled at what they do will naturally attract followers, and suddenly factionalism takes hold.

Anarchy can be deliberate, but if it is being proposed as a long-term format for society, it would need some form of protection in place to prevent the entire thing from falling apart the moment a faction of enough mass decides they know what is best for everyone. That’s usually the role a government fulfils, but anarchy doesn’t have that.

It’s more the idea that it can be changed that I think the previous commenter was referring to. Since anarchy is not a codified structure, it is susceptible to a plurality forming around influential figures who become de facto leaders, and suddenly the system of anarchy falls apart.

If the plurality remains influential, you’ve got a dictatorship/monarchy. The majority could work together to block the dictatorship from forming, but that would require organization and compromise to bring people with disparate priorities together, effectively creating an early stage democracy.

In such a scenario, should either side prevail, they will also want some structure that either preserves their power (in the case of dictatorship) or places checks on power (in the case of democracy) and suddenly you have a government again.

I don’t know if that loophole works anymore, though. Google now requires a Turkish card to be added to your account in order to process payments from “Turkey”.

Source: tried to make a Google Play account for Turkey about a year ago to YouTube Premium. I registered at a Turkish address and VPN’d to a Turkish server, but was unable to proceed since Google did not accept my payment information.

And yet US news is the only category which is singled out in this community, so the US gets to be the defining factor in terms of what this community is about.

I get why that is, because for some reason US news tends to dominate the conversation wherever it is, hence why the “news” community on Lemmy.world is mostly filled by US news. Despite that community having no stipulation on country of origin, despite this not being an American-hosted site, and despite Americans not even being the majority of users here.

I just think it’s just regrettable that the idea of “world news” is defined chiefly by whether or not it takes place in America, and not by a measure of global significance. For example, the post right next to this one in this community is about a bar shooting in Ireland, yet the “not world news” crowd is completely absent in the comments.

It doesn’t seem to be how it works in practice, though, since the largest news communities by far on Lemmy.world are worldnews (34k subscribers) for any non-US news and news (18k subscribers) for any news, US or otherwise.

The next highest news community dedicated to a specific country on Lemmy.world that isn’t the US is canada_news at 151 subscribers. There are several other larger news/worldnews/US news communities hosted on or federated with Lemmy.world in between.

The separation into specific country communities for a given topic is a bit of an odd categorization to make as well, given that we don’t really have separate communities for, like, Norway Dogs or Panama Gaming or China Technology or Brazil Music. And if there were, one would assume it would be targeted to locals of those countries and feature content in the native language, rather than appeal to an international audience.

TIL the US isn’t in the world.

I do get the core of what you mean, but at the same time isn’t it a bit silly that we set the categories of news between “the US” and “literally everyone else”?

Personally, I don’t think the US deserves to have its own privileged classification of news that keeps it separate from the rest of the world. Otherwise we’re just letting the US be the center that “world news” revolves around.

I unsubscribed. I find myself using Amazon less and less for shipping anyways, so now I definitely don’t feel the need to stay subscribed for streaming either.

Assange helped Trump get elected, indicating he is driven more by spite than by any sense of justice. He became a right-wing icon.

I was sympathetic to his cause early on, but at this point I can’t really will myself to give him the benefit of the doubt any longer.

There is still a bit of a gray area there, though, which is that if you know you are not a subject matter expert, you should try to disclose that.

Hence why “IANAL” is so recurring on any online discussion about legal advice, because you want to offer what insight you can but you definitely don’t want to mislead anyone into believing your potentially dangerous legal advice is authoritative.